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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-22 11:38:58 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2025-10-22 11:38:58 -0700
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Merge branch 'bc/sha1-256-interop-01'
The beginning of SHA1-SHA256 interoperability work. * bc/sha1-256-interop-01: t1010: use BROKEN_OBJECTS prerequisite t: allow specifying compatibility hash fsck: consider gpgsig headers expected in tags rev-parse: allow printing compatibility hash docs: add documentation for loose objects docs: improve ambiguous areas of pack format documentation docs: reflect actual double signature for tags docs: update offset order for pack index v3 docs: update pack index v3 format
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@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ network byte order):
** 4-byte length in bytes of shortened object names. This is the
shortest possible length needed to make names in the shortened
object name table unambiguous.
- ** 4-byte integer, recording where tables relating to this format
+ ** 8-byte integer, recording where tables relating to this format
are stored in this index file, as an offset from the beginning.
- * 4-byte offset to the trailer from the beginning of this file.
+ * 8-byte offset to the trailer from the beginning of this file.
* Zero or more additional key/value pairs (4-byte key, 4-byte
value). Only one key is supported: 'PSRC'. See the "Loose objects
and unreachable objects" section for supported values and how this
@@ -260,12 +260,10 @@ network byte order):
compressed data to be copied directly from pack to pack during
repacking without undetected data corruption.
- * A table of 4-byte offset values. For an object in the table of
- sorted shortened object names, the value at the corresponding
- index in this table indicates where that object can be found in
- the pack file. These are usually 31-bit pack file offsets, but
- large offsets are encoded as an index into the next table with the
- most significant bit set.
+ * A table of 4-byte offset values. The index of this table in pack order
+ indicates where that object can be found in the pack file. These are
+ usually 31-bit pack file offsets, but large offsets are encoded as
+ an index into the next table with the most significant bit set.
* A table of 8-byte offset entries (empty for pack files less than
2 GiB). Pack files are organized with heavily used objects toward
@@ -276,10 +274,14 @@ network byte order):
up to and not including the table of CRC32 values.
- Zero or more NUL bytes.
- The trailer consists of the following:
- * A copy of the 20-byte SHA-256 checksum at the end of the
+ * A copy of the full main hash checksum at the end of the
corresponding packfile.
- * 20-byte SHA-256 checksum of all of the above.
+ * Full main hash checksum of all of the above.
+
+The "full main hash" is a full-length hash of the main (not compatibility)
+algorithm in the repository. Thus, if the main algorithm is SHA-256, this is
+a 32-byte SHA-256 hash and for SHA-1, it's a 20-byte SHA-1 hash.
Loose object index
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -427,17 +429,19 @@ ordinary unsigned commit.
Signed Tags
~~~~~~~~~~~
-We add a new field "gpgsig-sha256" to the tag object format to allow
-signing tags without relying on SHA-1. Its signed payload is the
-SHA-256 content of the tag with its gpgsig-sha256 field and "-----BEGIN PGP
-SIGNATURE-----" delimited in-body signature removed.
+We add new fields "gpgsig" and "gpgsig-sha256" to the tag object format to
+allow signing tags in both formats. The in-body signature is used for the
+signature in the current hash algorithm and the header is used for the
+signature in the other algorithm. Thus, a dual-signature tag will contain both
+an in-body signature and a gpgsig-sha256 header for the SHA-1 format of an
+object or both an in-body signature and a gpgsig header for the SHA-256 format
+of and object.
-This means tags can be signed
+The signed payload of the tag is the content of the tag in the current
+algorithm with both its gpgsig and gpgsig-sha256 fields and
+"-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----" delimited in-body signature removed.
-1. using SHA-1 only, as in existing signed tag objects
-2. using both SHA-1 and SHA-256, by using gpgsig-sha256 and an in-body
- signature.
-3. using only SHA-256, by only using the gpgsig-sha256 field.
+This means tags can be signed using one or both algorithms.
Mergetag embedding
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~